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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · 15d

🌿Join us for the Webinar Series 2025 – Road to The 11th International Plant Biomechanics Conference 2026 🌍
📅 Webinar #1: Sept 25, 2025 | [Register: ugm.id/PBMweb1]
📅Webinar #2: Oct 9, 2025 | [Register: ugm.id/PBMweb2]

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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · 16d

We are excited to announce the Plant Biomechanics Webinar Series 2025!
🗓 Webinar #1: Thursday, 25 September 2025
🕑 Time: 14.00 – 15.40 (UTC+7)
🎙 Speakers:
Yamamoto M. Matsuo-Ueda R. Noviandi G.I. Hutabarat
📝 Registration: ugm.id/PBMweb1

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Webinar #1 Plant Biomechanics. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Part of Webinar Series 2025 Road to The 11th International Plant Biomechanics Conference

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Umeå Plant Science Centre @umeaplantsciencecentre.se · May 21

🧪🌾VACANCY - Do you have experience in cell and molecular biology and microscopy and are looking for a PhD?🔬

Join the multidisciplinary research group of @stephanevrg.bsky.social and study how plant cells adhere to each other.

Learn more here 👇 and apply!
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

PhD position in plant science with a focus on cell adhesion

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Nick Talbot @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our review on mechanobiology of fungal invasive growth with Lauren Ryder and Joris Sprakel in the @currentbiology.bsky.social Special issue #Fungi www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mechanobiology of fungal invasion

Fungi exert physical force to enable them to invade diverse substrates including, in the case of pathogenic species, living cells. Ryder, Sprakel and Talbot provide an overview of the mechanobiology o...

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · Jun 9

Intracellular pathogens can form extensive hyphal structures. Here, the pathogen Phytophthora palmivora (magenta) produces invasive hyphae in a living epidermal cell of a Nicotiana root. The plant surrounds the invader by an 'extra-invasive hyphal membrane' (yellow)📸 @alexguyon.bsky.social

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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · May 30

🌱🧩 How do plant cells get their shape? 🧪

Check out the new #open-access #review exploring the mechanochemical duet between auxin & the cell wall in shaping diverse plant cell types from @srobertgroup.bsky.social's Lab.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ppl....

#PlantBiology #CellShape #Auxin #Biomechanics

Epidermal cells acquire different cell shapes to enable their functions and maintain tissue integrity in plants. Meristematic cells differentiate and expand into diverse mature cell types, including jigsaw puzzle-shaped pavement cells (a), round stomatal guard cells (b), elongated epidermal cells in hypocotyls and the apical hook (c), and root epidermal cells with root hairs (d). The spatial distribution and arrangement of cell wall polysaccharides, such as cellulose microfibrils, xyloglucans, and pectins (e.g., homogalacturonan represent as HG), and the abundance of methylester groups on these components in differentiating cells regulate anisotropy during cell growth, enabling the acquisition of specific cell shapes. In addition, proteins like KATANIN and CLASP reorient dynamically the cortical microtubules. These cortical microtubules rearrangement is in response to mechanical cues, either self-generated (as in b, c) or from neighboring cells (a, c), leading to the resulting cell shape.

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Auxin controls cell expansion by regulating cell wall biosynthesis and cell remodeling. Auxin promotes cell expansion by acidifying the cell wall and activating wall synthesis and loosening enzymes. Auxin efflux (PINs) and influx (AUX1) transporters establish concentration gradients in growing tissue. Auxin enters cells via influx transporters and activates the TRANSPORT INHIBITOR RESPONSE 1/AUXIN SIGNALING F-BOX PROTEINS-AUXIN/INDOLE ACETIC ACID (TIR1/AFB-Aux/IAA) nuclear signaling cascade, which regulates auxin-responsive genes, including AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs (ARFs) and SMALL AUXIN UP RNAs (SAURs). Auxin activates the H+-ATPase proton pump through TRANSMEMBRANE KINASE 1 (TMK1), acidifying the cell wall and triggering loosening enzymes including PECTIN METHYLESTERASEs (PMEs), EXPANSINs, and XYLOGLUCAN:XYLOGLUCOSYL TRANSFERASEs (EXTs). Cellulose microfibrils are synthesized by the plasma membrane-bound cellulose synthase complex (CSC), with cortical microtubules guiding the exocytosis of this complex toward expanding cell edges. Auxin coordinates the reorientation of cortical microtubules and actin filaments to regulate the trafficking of cell wall polysaccharides to ensure proper cell wall expansion and specific cell shape acquisition.

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jun 10

⌛️#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Advance Rates ending in few hours!🌿

Hurry and register soon for the best savings on the event you don’t want to miss!👉https://plantbiology.aspb.org/registration/.

#plantscience

American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Mar 31

📣 Register today for #PlantBio2025, which will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from July 26-30!🌱

Advance rates end June 10 at 11:59 Eastern! Hurry and register soon for the best savings on the event you don’t want to miss.👉 buff.ly/uHALCYW

#PlantScience

Advance Rates Now Open! Learn more at plantbiology.aspb.org. Featuring ASPB and Plant Biology logos and themed-background.

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣Happening next Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 5:00 pm Eastern Time. Join us!🌱

👉Free registration at plantae.org/plantaeprese....

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on June 17 at 5:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉Free registration at buff.ly/8FjzvUl.

#plantscience

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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · Feb 14

IMPORTANT: The 11th International Conference on Plantbiomechanics has been scheduled to 2026. Please take note!

The venue and host continues to be: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · Jan 21

🚨 Opportunity Alert! Now accepting applications for 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).

Learn more and apply by February 7, 2025 👉 https://surf.aspb.org

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Hadrien Oliveri @hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · Jan 20

🚨Hot off the press!

With Ibrahim Cheddadi, we tackled a key challenge: building a field theory of plant morphogenesis, based on fundamental balance laws and capturing cell wall remodelling and water dynamics in tissues🌿💧Check out our paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Seeking 4 Postdocs & 1 PhD to join €10 million multi-institution ERC Research #RESYDE project.
Help unravel the complex processes of symmetry breaking in plant development using flowers as a model system.
ℹ️ www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/
Please share! #plantscijobs #PlantScience

3D image of a flower meristem. Text overlay: Join the RESYDE project. 4 postdoc and 1 PhD. Research jobs and PhD studentships available at each institution are now open. Institutions are Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Cambridge, Umeå University and University of Sydney.

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PoppingaLab @poppingalab.bsky.social · Jan 16

The leptosporangium of Adiantum peruvianum shooting its spores, recorded with 50.000 fps

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · Jan 14

Good tips! Just editing a cover letter for @jxbotany.bsky.social now and they ask authors to answer these three questions:
1. What is the main question your manuscript seeks to answer?
2. How does your manuscript advance understanding of the topic?
3. Why is this work timely and important?

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · Jan 15

In just 5 month’s time we’ll be raising the curtain @debijloke in Ghent www.bijloke.be for Arabidopsis and much much more #ICAR2025 ! Registration is now OPEN, submit abstracts for oral presentations until March 17th, early bird registration runs until April 20th. More info on
www.icar2025.com !

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Marhavy lab @pmarhavy.bsky.social · Jan 13

Thrilled to share our work lead by Di Fino in great collaboration with @Panosmoschou,@Hamann_lab, @GreenMechanobio, @RichardSmithLab published @Dev_Cell: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Cellular damage triggers mechano-chemical control of cell wall dynamics and patterned cell divisions in plant healing

Di Fino et al. analyzed the biomechanical properties of the cell wall in the Arabidopsis root and found that xylem pole pericyclic cell walls are more flexible than outer cell walls. This flexibility ...

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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · Jan 12

The beauty (and mercilessness) of plant motion.

Terrariums @terrariums.bsky.social · Jan 11

Video of a sundew eating a moth. More can be found on my YouTube!!

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Mechanical forces instruct division plane orientation of cambium stem cells during radial growth in Arabidopsis thaliana @currentbiology.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Video: Cortical microtubules in cambium stem cells from hypocotyl longitudinal sections

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Adrien Heymans @adrienheymans.bsky.social · Nov 29

🌱 New preprint from the Verger Lab @stephanevrg.bsky.social ! 🧪

📜 Imran Baba et al., 2024: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

🔬 Discover how RG-II crosslinking in the plant cell wall, regulated by Boron, is crucial for cell adhesion during growth.

✨ Bonus: RRQuant tool! (Details in thread 👇)

#PlantBiology

Figure 2: Homogalacturonan deficiency and rhamnogalacturonan-II
dimerization defects affect adhesion through largely separate pathways. (A-G)
Representative max intensity Z-projections of confocal stacks from 4-days-old darkgrown hypocotyl stained with propidium iodide from Col-0 (A), mur1-2 (B), qua2-1 (C),
mur1-2 qua2-1 (D), esmd1-1 (E), mur1-2 esmd1-1 (F) and qua2-1 esmd1-1 (G). (H)
Schematic representation of Boron-Rhamnogalacturonan-II (RG-II) dimers and
Calcium-Homogalacturonan (HG) “egg-box” crosslinking domains along the HG
backbone. (I) Quantification of the relative ruthenium red staining intensity (see
representative images and length quantification in figure S3). Boxplots summarize
three biological replicates, as represented by dots of different colors, and letters
describe the statistically significant differences between populations determined by
one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD test (P < 0.05).[Scale bars, 30µm in images
(A-G).] See related content in figure S2 and S3.

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Dec 3

Mechanical stress orients stomata division to form tissue scale alignments. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626480v1

The last stomatal division aligns with the leaf main axis in many species. Understanding how cellula

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · Dec 16

A postdoctoral position is available in the team of Gwyneth Ingram @rdplab.bsky.social as part of a collaborative project with our group @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social

#plantscience

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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · Jan 10

#PlantBio2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (July 26-30), hosted by @aspbofficial.bsky.social features a plenary on #plantbiomechanics chaired by @erinsparks.bsky.social

plantbiology.aspb.org/plenary-symp...

Speakers: @geitmannlab.bsky.social, Naomi Nakayama,
@radinbio.bsky.social, Frank W. Telewski

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · Jan 8

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st
→ tinyurl.com/2872w6vm
The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb.
Spread the word!

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Plant Biomechanics @plantbiomechanics.bsky.social · Jan 6

If there was an award for plant-biomechanics-adjacent work, this one would definitely be a top candidate!

Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · Jan 3

Morphogenesis of cheese flowers through scraping - The physics of Tête de Moine. Added to my reading list. #Girolle arxiv.org/abs/2501.00797

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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · Dec 24

Cell walls, a comparative view of the composition of cell surfaces of plants, algae and microorganisms academic.oup.com/jxb/article/... @jxbotany.bsky.social

Cell walls, a comparative view of the composition of cell surfaces of plants, algae and microorganisms

Abstract. While evolutionary studies indicate that the most ancient groups of organisms on Earth likely descended from a common wall-less ancestor, contemp

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